The Bihar-Orissa under 14 match played at the Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur saw Bihar win the toss and lose first day honours. After electing to bat first, Bihar skipper Rajdeep Roy saw things go badly wrong for his side as they were skittled out for a mere 145.

After starting poorly, when Bihar lost their first three wickets with just nineteen runs on the board, they were furthered hampered by the loss of wickets at regular intervals. Th wickets were shared all around with Sumit Sagar Hembram, Amitav Naik, Tukuna Sahu and Dhiraj Singh scalping two wickets apiece. At the end of 35 overs Bihar were staring down the barrel at 69/7. However, a gritty innings of 38 from number eight batsman S Nadeem saved Bihar the blushes. Santosh Kumar and Madan Kumar, who followed Nadeem made 18 each and Bihar managed to scrape through to 145 all out.

In response, the Orissa side fared much better than its counterparts. Despite losing a couple of wickets, Orissa put 55 runs on the board when stumps was called. With eight wickets in hand, Orissa have a good chance of overhauling Bihar's first innings total.

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